约翰·亚当斯(John Adams),美国当代著名作曲家,简约主义后期的重要代表人物,他的职业生涯早期曾追随约翰·凯奇致力于先锋派音乐创作,随后另辟蹊径,在简约主义领域获得成功。某种意义上,这种颇具哲学理念的音乐创作手法与先锋音乐一样致力于理性探索,而他并不十分情愿放弃情感的表达,首部写实主义歌剧《尼克松在中国》的成功无疑为约翰·亚当斯找到了一个述说情感更加完美的平台,歌 John Adams, a famous contemporary composer in the United States and an important representative of the later period of minimalism, and his early career as a follower of John Cage dedicated to avant-garde music creation, followed by another path to success in the area of ​​minimalism. In a sense, this philosophical approach to musical composition is as rational exploration as vanguard music, and he is not very willing to give up the expression of emotion. The success of the first realist opera “Nixon in China” undoubtedly is John Adams Found a more perfect platform to describe emotions, songs